31 Critical Literacy Website Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource is a ten-page discussion of questions and answers involving critical literacy. The resource begins by examining what critical literacy is, what it includes, and why it's important: "Although there are several versions of critcal literacy, each underpinned by different theoretical perspectives, all of them involve an active, challenging approach to reading and textual... Projects: Writing 6-12 32 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, February 2006, Supporting Struggling Readers in Content-Area Learning Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The February issue of AdLIT's In Perspective focuses on supporting struggling readers in content-area learning. The entire issue can be downloaded, and regular columns include the following: (1) featured article; (2) classroom vignettes; (3) student voices; (4) a look at the Ohio Graduation Test; (5) for your bookshelf; and (6) resources from the ORC collection.... Projects: Writing 6-12 33 Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, September 2005, Adolescent Literacy In Perspective: A Retrospective Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, an online journal developed specifically for Ohio's middle school and secondary school educators, launches its second year with a look at past articles and previews of the topics planned for future issues. The journal provides a forum for addressing issues in adolescent literacy, encouraging professional dialogue about a wide range of topics from multiple viewpoints.... Projects: Writing 6-12 34 Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in Professional Learning Communities and Subject-Area Classrooms Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Cynthia Greenleaf's "Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in Professional Learning Communities and Subject-Area Classrooms" is the featured article in this issue (February 2006) of AdLIT's In Perspective. The author explains the significance of and engagement in metacognitive conversation in professional learning communities and subject-area classrooms in seven sections: (1) Tapping Subject-Area Teachers' Expertise in Reading; (2) Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in the Classroom; (3) Introducing Think-Aloud as a Metacognitive Routine; (4) To Prepare and Teach Think-Aloud; and (5) Metacognitive Conversation is Key; (6) Using Think-Aloud to Teach Subject-Specific Thinking Processes; and (7) Metacognitive Conversation Apprentices Students to Subject-Area Reading.... Projects: Writing 6-12 35 Literature--Before, Behind, and Beyond Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette, Cher Orebaugh, a former middle and high school teacher, lends her firsthand experience to teaching literature (Wuthering Heights) in new ways. Available in its entirety in the February 2006 issue of AdLIT In Perspective, "Literature--Before, Behind, and Beyond" traces Orebaugh's introduction to, use of, and ultimately success with frontloading to teach her students Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–12 Professional Commentary: "Browse Reading Strategies" includes a list of reading strategies, each of which opens to a full resource on the strategy. "Questioning" is an excellent resource for teachers and educators seeking more information about strategies for questioning (OGT et al.), and can be linked to directly: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/strategy_each.aspx?id=000003.... Projects: Writing 6-12 37 Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The Greece Central School District in North Greece, NY has published a useful chart as a resource for professionals. The chart details 46 tools for reading and writing including graphic organizers and note-taking strategies including academic notes, cause and effect, Cornell notes, four square perspective, KWL (revised), interactive notes, metaphor analysis, inductive main idea, and pyramid notes.... Projects: Writing 6-12 38 Books by Brozo, Pirie, Tautm, and Smith and Wilhelm Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The March 2006 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective includes reviews by Sheila Cantlebary (Reading Content Specialist at the ORC). This month's "For Your Bookshelf” includes the following titles: (1) To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Literacy by William Brozo; (2) Teenage Boys and High School English by Bruce Pirie; (3) Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap by Alfred Tatum; (4) Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men by Michael W.... Projects: Writing 6-12 39 Books by Rapheal, Highfield, and Au, by Koechlin and Zwann, and by Beck and McKeown Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The October 2006 issue of AdLIT's In Perspective includes reviews by Sheila Cantlebary (Reading Content Specialist at the ORC). This month's "For Your Bookshelf” includes the following titles: (1) QAR Now: Question Answer Relationships by Taffy E.... Projects: Writing 6-12 40 Where You From? Using a Sense of Place to Celebrate Our Students and the Language Arts Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Tammy A. Schwartz, an assistant professor in Teacher Education at Miami University in Ohio, and Kevin A.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |